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    Top 10 greatest drivers of all time.

    I would like to ask a simple question. Who would you choose as your top 10 greatest drivers of all time? F1, American Open Wheel, NASCAR, or whatever it's up to you.

    My list:

    1. Ayrton Senna
    2. A.J. Foyt
    3. Mario Andretti
    4. Richard Petty
    5. Michael Schumacher
    6. Dale Earnhardt Sr.
    7. Rick Mears (Maybe a bit high to some but he is a hero of mine)
    8. Jim Clark
    9. Alain Prost
    10. Nigel Mansell

    Tough leaving off greats like Jeff Gordon, Michael Andretti, Jackie Stewart, etc. but it is what it is. I'm sure many disagree with my list, but I love Indycar more than F1, although I do believe Senna was a very special driver.

    Well, I look forward to seeing what you guys think.
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    To make this more interesting, can I suggest that people should write a couple of sentences about each driver they list
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    Quote Originally Posted by D-Type
    To make this more interesting, can I suggest that people should write a couple of sentences about each driver they list
    Absolutely!

    Senna - Great talent and car control, hard to find anyone who doesn't agree he is special.

    Foyt - No matter what he drove (midgets, Indycar, NASCAR) he won in.

    Andretti - An incredible career in both Indycar and in F1, the father of the Andretti dynasty.

    Petty - 200 wins and 7 titles in a dominating career.

    Schumacher - The most career F1 wins, 7 career World Championships.

    Earnhardt Sr. - Raced as hard headed as anyone, yet still regarded highly by his peers for 7 championship titles.

    Mears - Winner of 4 Indy 500's and holds the most poles at Indy (6).

    Clark - Winner of the 500 in '65, 2 time F1 world champion, and 25 career wins. All this done in eight years.

    Prost - 4 titles, 2nd all time in wins.

    Mansell - Excelled in F1 winning 31 times and won the Cart championship and nearly the 500 in 1993.
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    I can't count. I have 11 in a Top Ten.

    Sébastien Loeb - 7 WRC Championships
    Jacky Ickx - 6 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1 Spa 24 Hours, 8 F1 victories, 1 Bathurst 1000
    Eric van de Poele - 3 Le Mans 24 Hours, 5 Spa 24 Hours
    Mario Andretti - 1 F1 Championship, the Daytona 500, USAC national dirt track champion, 24 Hours of daytona, an Indy Car Championship and 1 Indianapolis 500.
    Graham Hill - 2 F1 Championships, 1 Spa 24 Hours, 1 Indianapolis 500
    Tom Kristensen - 6 Le Mans 24 Hours, 5 12 Hours of Sebring
    Michael Schumacher - 7 F1 Championships
    Alain Prost - 4 F1 Championships (should have been 7)
    Peter Brock - 9 Bathurst wins, 1 Bathurst 24 Hours, 3 ATCC, 1 Round Australia Rally
    Richard Petty - 7 NASCAR Championships, 7 Daytona 500s... 200 race wins!
    Steve Kinser - 20 US Sprint Car Championships

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    Senna - Great talent and car control, hard to find anyone who doesn't agree he is special.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rollo
    Tom Kristensen - 6 Le Mans 24 Hours, 5 12 Hours of Sebring
    Move Tom up a notch on your list - he's actually won Le Mans 8 times - 6 in a row from 00 to 05.

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    Greatest of all time, such a list is subjective to the point of being meaningless.

    It is odd, yeah right, that there are no pre-WW II or really pre-sixties drivers in these lists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
    Greatest of all time, such a list is subjective to the point of being meaningless.

    It is odd, yeah right, that there are no pre-WW II or really pre-sixties drivers in these lists.
    Indeed, such lists are subjective. That is why I asked the authors to say why they had chosen their particular ten.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
    Greatest of all time, such a list is subjective to the point of being meaningless.

    It is odd, yeah right, that there are no pre-WW II or really pre-sixties drivers in these lists.
    Not really. I just wanted to see what drivers people consider to be the greatest for something to do. If you don't like it, don't read it.
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    The only thing I'm always assured of reading these lisst is Senna being grossly overrated, and prost grossly underrated.

    Anyway, Schumacher was better than senna when schumacher was just his first year or two into F1. which is when senna was supposed to be in his prime F1 years. If wet behind the ears schumacher is beating you prime years with an equal or worse carl there is no way you can be better than Schumacher.

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    Sebastien Loeb - Without peer in his generation.

    Colin McRae - Spectacular!

    Richard Burns - Often overshadowed by McRae but one of the greats and a career tragically cut short.
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